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What DEVs need to hear from a DBA and why SQL and RDBMS still matters…

The Average case As a skilled developer, you are well-versed in the latest trends and fully capable of building an application from scratch. From the frontend to the RESTful API backend, through to the ORM and the database, you have(…)

Alfresco – Mass removal/cleanup of documents

At a customer, I recently had a case where a mass-import job was executed on an interface that, in the background, uses Alfresco for document and metadata storage. From the point of view of the interface team, there was no(…)

Add authentication in a Feathers.js REST API

Following on from my previous articles: Create REST API from your database in minute with Feathers.js, and Add a UI to explore the Feathers.js API, today I want to add authentication in my Feathers.js REST API. Creation, update(…)

Detect XZ Utils CVE 2024-3094 with Tetragon

How to use Tetragon to detect XZ Utils backdoor CVE 2024-3094 before it was known. Apply the Zero Trust security strategy.

A first look at openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0

Recently the openSUSE project announced the Alpha release of Leap Micro 6.0. This version of the openSUSE operating system is optimized for container workloads and edge computing. One of the cool features(…)

Another file system for Linux: bcachefs (3) – Mirroring/Replicas

This is the third post in this little series about bcachefs. The first post was all about the basics while the second post introduced bcachefs over multiple devices.

Apache Kafka and ksqlDB

After two introduction blogs on Apache Kafka (ie. Apache Kafka Concepts by Example and Apache Kafka Consumer Group), it is time to discover the wide ecosystem around it. In this blog post,(…)

Investigative look into cloud-native hyper-converged infrastructure with Harvester

In this first blog, we will have a look on what is Harvester, cloud native hyper-converged infrastructure, it's concepts and the installation.

Another file system for Linux: bcachefs (2) – multi device file systems

In the last post, we’ve looked at the very basics when it comes to bcachefs, a new file system which was added to the Linux kernel starting from version 6.7. While we’ve already seen how easy(…)

Another file system for Linux: bcachefs (1) – basics

When Linux 6.7 (already end of life) was released some time ago another file system made it into the kernel: bcachefs. This is another copy on write file(…)